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Memory Corruption: Best Tackled with Mitigations or Safe-Languages

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Memory corruption is a difficult problem to solve, but many such as CISA are pushing for moves to memory safe languages. How viable is rewriting compared to mitigating?

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[00:00:00] Introduction

[00:01:12] Clarifying Scope & Short/Long Term

[00:04:28] Mitigations

[00:15:37] Safe Languages Are Falliable

[00:21:20] Weaknesses & Evolution of Mitigations

[00:29:19] Rewriting and the Iterative Process

[00:34:55] The Rewriting Scalability Argument

[00:41:43] System vs App Bugs

[00:48:46] Mitigations & Rewriting Are Not Mutually Exclusive

[00:50:25] Corporate vs Open Source

[00:54:12] Generational Change

[00:56:18] Conclusion

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